Until the expiry of the time limit for appealing against the electoral operations or, where an appeal has been lodged, until all avenues of appeal have been exhausted, the media files including copies of the source programmes and executable programmes, the voting materials, the tally, results and back-up files and all the personal data recorded on the processing system referred to in Article R. 7343-3 shall be kept under seal, under the supervision of the Employment Platforms Labour Relations Authority. The procedure for counting the votes must, if necessary, be able to be carried out again.
On expiry of the time limit for appeals or, where legal action has been taken, after all legal remedies have been exhausted, unless criminal proceedings have been instituted within this time limit, these media and data shall be destroyed, under the supervision of the Employment Platforms Social Relations Authority.